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Re: Problem with inheritance??

get_accType() is a member of Account1, therefore cannot be access from a Customer because not all customers necessarily have a method called get_accType(). There are two options:

1. Cast the object to Account1. You should only use this if you know you're going to have an Account1 object.
2. Move get_accType() into the Customers class (either as a fully defined method, or as an abstract method).